AuthorTopic: Newbie - Wireless Wont Hookup (Read 11739 times)

I took a HP laptop with bad hard drive, installed new hard drive & loaded Vector Linux 6.0 Standard. The system will located my wireless but I can't get it to hook up to it. Have internet no problem when hard wired. I find the wireless, enter the password but it either searches for ever - no hook up or just flashes & no hook up. I have tried every wep password, 1/2 password, no luck. Can someone give me an idea what it happening?

Can you help on how I find the make model of the wireless card, I am new to VL, In windows xp I can find it but can't seem to find the area in VL that shows my hardware. I have not tried taking the incriprion out of the wireless router. The wireless card does find the router's name when I search for wireless in the area. I do appreciate the assistance

so I go to a terminal, it will not recognize any of those commands. So logged into VASMCC as administrator, brought up terminal, still none of the commands were recognized. It is also funny, I type the commands, see nothing being typed until hit enter, then they show up -

Looks like you have a broadcom chipset wireless device as indicated by the 'b43' module being loaded, however this does not guarantee anything. We will still the output from the previously mentioned commands. Try this:

Before you run the commands in a terminal, dosuThen type in your root password.

The prompt should now indicate you are running as root, like this:root:#

Now type each command and report the results. When you're finished, typeexitat the prompt to return to being user.

You have to run ifconfig and iwconfig as root. DON'T log in as root. Simply do su and your root password to become root and exit back to user as soon as you finish your root business.

You can run lsmod as user. You can run the other two as user like this:/sbin/lspci/sbin/lsusb

The commands won't be found if you omit /sbin before the commands. I suggested running them all as root because they will all work just by typing the name.

If I understand what you did with VASMCC, I think you may be confused. Running VASMCC as superuser does not give you root privileges for anything else. It's just for running VASMCC. When you open a terminal, you will be opening it as user. Do the su thing above and work as root for the commands you run in the terminal until you exit back to user or close the terminal.--GrannyGeek

I found your posted How to Recipes. that is where I go to the above. But can't get it to do any of the other commands. Went to VASM to try to get to hardware but when VASM comes up it only gives : PASSWD Change password, XWMSET setup default manager, SKEL reset default settings, SUPER run super VSAM (root password needed) EXIT bye, see you later. Nothing as a menu to Hardware --to get to HWCONF. Also the password though checked to save never does. So may be showing my No knowlege of what is going on, but figure that is the only way I am going to learn.